Shelby County
As a fourth-generation Memphian, I have dedicated my life to public service in Memphis and Shelby County. My work has defined my life and affected the lives of people in Memphis, across Tennessee and now across America throughout my career in national, state and local politics.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $192,500 grant to conduct research on synapses from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who introduced the Multiple Substance Impaired Driving Prevention Act and succeeded in getting it signed into law as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, today received the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (Responsibility.org) 2021 Leadership Award. This award is presented to a select few Members of Congress for their leadership in the fight against impaired driving and underage drinking.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today spoke at the Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands legislative hearing, advocating his Evaluating Lynching Locations (ELL) for National Park Sites Act, which would direct the National Park Service to study lynching sites within 100 miles of Memphis for possible inclusion in our park system. The bill is named after Mr. Ell Persons, who lived near the site of where the decapitated body of a 16- year-old white girl was found in the outskirts of Memphis in 1917.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today questioned expert witnesses at a hearing entitled "What's Next: The Threat to Individual Freedoms in a Post-Roe World."
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Methodist LeBonheur Community Outreach will receive a $572,024 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today expressed his condolences to the family of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and to the Japanese people. He sent a private letter to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today praised President Biden's executive order protecting reproductive rights, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, today wrote to President Biden to encourage him to do everything in his power to secure the release of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan and Vladimir Kara-Murza from Russian detention.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Today, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Co-Chairman Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Jim Cooper (TN-05) today applauded the Biden Administration's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for asking Tennessee to rethink major changes that would have turned Tennessee's Medicaid program, known as TennCare, into a block grant.